New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and WalcottUniversity of Georgia Press, 25 янв. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 442 A simultaneously ecocritical and comparative study, New World Poetics plumbs the earthly depth and social breadth of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott, three of the Americas' most ambitious and epic-minded poets. In Whitman's call for a poetry of New World possibility, Neruda's invocation of an "American love," and Walcott's investment in the poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry does not reinvent the mythical Garden that stands before history's beginnings but instead taps the foundational powers of language before a natural world deeply imbued with the traces of human time. Theirs is a postlapsarian Adam seeking a renewed sense of place in a biocentric and cross-cultural New World through language and nature's capacity for regeneration in the wake of human violence and suffering. The book introduces the environmental history of the Americas and its relationship to the foundation of American and Latin American studies, explores its relevance to each poet's ambition to recuperate the New World's lost histories, and provides a transnational poetics of understanding literary influence and textual simultaneity in the Americas. The study provides much needed in-depth ecocritical readings of the major poems of the three poets, insisting on the need for thoughtful regard for the challenge to human imagination and culture posed by nature's regenerative powers; nuanced appreciation for the difficulty of balancing the demands of social justice within the context of deep time; and the symptomatic dangers as well as healing potential of human self-consciousness in light of global environmental degradation. |
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... story and that what happens to us happens to the earth in undifferentiated parallel lines. The telos of inevitability that such apocalyptic thinking tends to inspire has led some to insist on a categorical distinction between natural ...
... story of Whitman's influence in the hemisphere , including an overview of his specific impact on José Martí and on Neruda and Walcott . The upshot of the chapter is to suggest that what links the various manifestations of an adamic ...
... story of the New World encounter . The Western Hemisphere is not alone on the globe in containing an ancient and deep history , both natural and human , but what we now know of this story is largely due to the modern work of ...
... story of singular human origins from the same parents . " Adam " was a symbol , in this sense , of Europe's attempt to lay claim to a genealogy of a racially restricted definition of human unity in shallow time . Yet the American ...
... story retained its usefulness in a new empirical world by placing more responsibility on human shoulders for gaining knowledge and taking care of the “fallen” world of nature. Adam might find out who he is by finding out where he is ...
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